The Yuan Family of the Three Kingdoms I call the shots

Chapter 59 Dynamics of the parties

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"Liu Bei! You bullied me too much!" At this time, Xia Houyuan's complexion was flushed, his steel teeth were about to be crushed, and the symptoms on his body disappeared without a trace.

Xia Houyuan was notoriously violent in the Cao army. If he got angry, half of the barracks would move three times.

All the generals in the hall saw that Xia Houyuan was so angry, they all lowered their heads and did not dare to say anything, but the boss complained in their hearts.

Which goddam thing wrote this letter?

He tried to make himself happy, but we were the ones who suffered. If we catch him, we must peel off the skin of the letter writer.

The lieutenant general who read the letter was kneeling on the ground begging to die at this moment, no matter how overbearing Xia Houyuan was, it was naturally difficult for him to continue reading.

He looked back and forth at the generals in the hall, but saw that all the generals and captains hurriedly raised their heads to the ceiling one by one, pretending to ignore them silently.

Xia Houyuan himself didn't bother to read the letter. The problem was that his niece was mentioned in it, and he couldn't finish reading it. After scanning the crowd, his eyes finally fell on the envoy of Liu Beijun who sent the letter.

"you!"

Xia Houyuan raised his hand and pointed at the messenger, and said through gritted teeth, "I will read the letter you sent, or I will cut you off!"

Liu Bei's envoy didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly picked up the book Jian Ji from the ground, and continued with the words just now: "Manzi Xiahou, do you know who kidnapped your dumb niece? That's right, she is in our Runan City now! "

Xia Houyuan's complexion suddenly became dark, and there was a dark light in his wolf eyes, as if he had murderous intentions faintly.

The emissary's forehead was sweating, and he continued intermittently: "Do you want to send troops to rescue her? Then come and rescue her quickly. If you don't save her, it will be too late. It was a little dangerous a few days ago. Our General Zhang has treated her very well." It's kind of interesting, but because I don't want to be your niece and son-in-law, I really didn't dare to do it after thinking about it, but I guess he might not be able to hold it for too long, you'd better hurry up, or don't delay it for a year or a half , even if you rescue her back, you may have to bring a grand nephew along with you."

"Enough!" Xia Houyuan raised his hand abruptly, then pointed at the messenger and said, "Drag him down and behead him to sacrifice the flag!"

"Ah?" The envoy's legs softened immediately when he heard the words, he knelt on the ground, and cried and said: "General Xiahou, didn't you just say that as long as I read the letter, you won't kill me?"

Xia Houyuan snorted heavily and said: "Absurd! The general just said that if you don't read the letter, I will kill you, but he never said that if you read the letter, I will not kill you! Drag it on, drag it on!"

The envoy was sweating profusely, and when he was being dragged by the sword and axe, he cried loudly: "The two armies are at war, and the envoy will not be beheaded! The envoy will not be beheaded!"

In fact, it's not Xia Houyuan's cruelty. After seeing this kind of letter, no one could spare the messenger who sent the letter. If the messenger is to blame, he can only blame that bastard Yuan Shang's writing style is really bad and annoying.

Xia Houyuan gritted his teeth and watched the envoy being dragged out and beheaded, then turned his head to look at the generals in the hall, and said, "Immediately order the generals of Qi, and the three armies will come out together. I want to flatten Runan, capture Liu Bei alive, and kill this envoy." The big-eared thief peeled his skin and cramped, hanging high on the top of the city!"

The lieutenants under Xia Houyuan's command suddenly changed color when they heard the words.

I saw one person hastily came out of the squad to remonstrate: "General Xiahou, although the lady was captured by Liu Jun, the general is a commander in chief of the three armies, so you should not be burdened by personal affairs. Liu Bei's purpose of holding this letter to the general is nothing more than to force the general to marry you." Sending troops to fight decisively with the city of Yingchuan, the general must not miss the plan, if there is a mistake, it will be too late to regret."

Xia Houyuan sneered a few times when he heard the words, shook his head and said: "Don't worry, although the general is worried about Juan'er, Liu Bei's little trick can't escape the general's eyes. He abducted me, Juan'er. It’s nothing more than that you don’t want to attack the city by force, you want to force me to send troops to fight him on the plains, and after defeating me, I will send troops to Runan, hehe, how can this general let him succeed?”

All the people in the tent heard the words and looked back and forth, but they didn't understand what it meant. Since Xia Houyuan knew Liu Bei's thoughts, why did he still do things like this?
But Xia Houyuan said slowly: "I know the number of Liu Bei's soldiers and horses. There are more than [-] thieves among them. I recently heard that the thieves who cheated and besieged Xudu in Hebei Province joined him and were in Runan together. I don't even think about it." It will be more than [-]. Such a force is not enough to attack Yingchuan, but if it confronts me head-on, it has the strength to fight. How can I not understand the intention of this big-eared thief? Unfortunately, Cao Ren is stationing troops in Wancheng at the moment , his soldiers and horses are all elites, if he is invited to send troops together, how can Liu Bei be an opponent?"

The generals were stunned when they heard the words, no wonder General Xia Houyuan was so confident, but he thought of sending troops in two directions with General Cao Ren!

But seeing Xia Houyuan looking back and forth at the crowd, he continued: "Liu Bei is the hero of the present age. My lord has said this for a long time. Now my lord is in the north and Yuan Shao is still undecided. Naturally, we need to share the worries of the prime minister for the south. , Liu Bei has been stealing from Runan, and he has been disobedient for a long time. Sooner or later, it will be a disaster. I will take this opportunity to rescue Juan'er on the one hand, pacify the troubles in the south on the one hand, and kill Liu Bei on the other, so as to eliminate a major enemy for the lord , this battle is the general trend, don't doubt it, just fight it with all your strength!"

When all the generals heard the words, they bowed their hands and paid homage: "No!"

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In this way, when Liu Bei's party was setting up a military camp in Yeyuan with great fanfare, Cao's army also divided into two groups. On the one hand, Xia Houyuan led his troops to the south and came straight to Runan, and on the other, he received a letter from Xia Houyuan. Cao Ren's soldiers and horses swarmed towards Liu Bei's army from west to east.

The place where the soldiers and horses of the three parties gather is in Yeyuan, and the battle over the ownership of Yuzhou will start here.

And at this time, a group of more than a hundred soldiers and horses quietly rushed from Runan to Jiuli Mountain, and the leader was none other than Yuan Shang.

Cao, Liu, and Yuan are about to start a big battle in Yeyuan, but Yuan Shang quietly lurks to Jiuli Mountain, not for anything else, just to borrow Lu Lingqi's thieves, and at the critical moment, he can stab Xia Houyuan in the back fiercely!

Yuan Shang firmly believes that a dagger that is poisonous in the dark is sometimes far stronger than a huge sword that is extremely hard in the front.

At this time, the rainy season has just passed, and Jiuli Mountain is already full of wet mud everywhere. The river flows from the top of the mountain, a clear and sweet trickle, meanders in the mountain, and then merges into a small stream, rushing eastward.

Although the mountain road is dangerous, it is not high, and you can lead the horses up. Yuan Shang and other hundred riders lead the horses, and stride up the mountain slowly, but there is no one to stop them along the way. I can't help but feel strange.

Logically speaking, Jiuli Mountain is the lair where Lu Lingqi lives and works, and a hundred or so people from her own side come up, but after such a long time, there is not even a single one who made a way, isn't it a bit too strange?

In everyone's imagination, thieves like Lu Lingqi should be hundreds of times stronger than ordinary people in terms of safety awareness!Otherwise, there is no way to be a thief.

Yuan Shang felt strange. Judging from this situation, either Lu Lingqi and the birthday stars were tired of hanging themselves, and wanted to find some excitement to throw up their picks.

Or something terrible happened on the mountain!
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw a group of thieves with knives suddenly flashing out halfway up the mountain, each of them vicious, looking at Yuan Shang and the others vigilantly.

However, when the leading thief saw Yuan Shang's appearance clearly, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed and said: "Young Master Yuan!"

Yuan Shang recognized that the leading man was an important leader under Lu Lingqi's command. If he remembered correctly, he should be called Chen Lan.

When Chen Lan saw Yuan Shang, Shicai's ferocious expression disappeared immediately, and hurried forward to meet him, saying, "Third Young Master, why are you here?! I was careless just now, and I almost shot and fought with you!"

Yuan Shang smiled when he heard the words, and said: "It's nothing serious, but the good opportunity to return to Hebei is coming soon, I want to see if you big bosses are packed, so we can go back to Yecheng together!"

Chen Lan smiled boldly after hearing the words: "Don't worry, San Gongzi, since I returned to Jiuli Mountain to disperse the grain seeds for the people, I have been packing up my belongings, and I am ready to wait for San Gongzi's order at any time, and return to Hebei with you!"

Yuan Shang nodded when he heard the words, and said: "That's good, remember not to move all the pots and pans to Hebei. At that time, if you don't run fast, you have to wait until Cao Jun catches up. Good deal."

Chen Lan shook her head and said: "Young Master, you are just joking. We are a group of poor thieves, Wa Kou. Where did we get so many riches? We just prepare some sunken rice water and wine for eating and drinking. If we can get to Hebei, that's fine!"

Yuan Shang nodded, and said again: "By the way, is your cottage going to be yellow or something? Why does it look like it's closed? I walked all the way up, and I didn't even see a ghost except you. To? Your leaders are too irresponsible, and the defense is too lax. If I were the local commander and lieutenant, give me 300 troops, and I can take over your lair in half an hour."

Chen Lan's face became tense when he heard the words, and said: "Young master, I don't know. An hour ago, another group of big thieves led troops to the village, saying that they had important matters to discuss with the big boss. The crowd came very fiercely. The big boss was afraid of trouble, and guarded the mountain. The brothers all called back to the cottage to take care of them."

Yuan Shang heard the words and asked curiously: "Your big boss is known as the red-clothed thief in Jiuli Mountain. Isn't it very good to hang out in Yanzhou and Yuzhou? How come there are thieves who are more fierce than her?"

Chen Lan nodded when she heard the words, and said: "The coming is quite powerful, even the big boss has to be careful. I don't know, third son, have you heard of Chang Xi from Chaohu?"

(End of this chapter)